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> which was 100% due to human error

Not sure how familiar you are with the airplane industry but nothing is ever "100% due to human error" in these events. We know humans are controlling these planes and the equipment can always gets better. Usually it comes down to UX, checklists and more to have multiple stopgaps to prevent issues. Just a quick scan of the Flight 522 page shows there were in fact many UX issues like why can you take off when the pressure system is turned to manual? Forcing a manual override if so would have helped. Same alert sound was also used for "take-off configuration warning" and "cabin altitude warning", leading to the pilots making the wrong decision. Attributing Flight 522 to only human error is not what the courts did (check the "Lawsuits and criminal proceedings" section in the page you linked) so not sure why you would.
Or: look-but-failed-to-see-errors, which are an "interesting" cause of accidents. When I took my motorcycle driver's test, my driving instructor sometimes warned me that I needed to make movements in a particular way. He claimed that even though I would make eye contact with a car driver, they may look-but-not-see-me. His reasoning was, as a motorcycle rider, I'm horizontal/upright when a car driver may be looking for something vertical (another car).
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Given that when a SPACS find a merger target you can chose either to invest in it or get your money back with interest, I'm not sure how the SPAC could ever be worthless.
Because the website seems down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210125095633/http://nautil.us/...
I fail to see how it does. The popularity of Arxiv is indeed a sign of a slow-functioning peer-review system, but it has its valid uses.

My criticism pertains to OP using Arxiv as a PDF host for course material irrelevant to Arxiv's userbase, i.e. expert researchers. It is already hard enough to find the quality manuscripts in Arxiv. Hence why Karpathy made Arxiv Sanity Preserver [1]. I would rather not have to drudge through pages of tutorial pdf's when searching "neural graph methods for NLP" for instance.

1. https://www.arxiv-sanity.com
Deaths from rare diseases are "fat tailed". Meaning that if you found out there were millions of excess deaths in a given year, then a new disease is a lot more likely to be the reason than car crashes.

Are deaths from terrorism fat tailed? Terrorists can get access to biological weapons, the electricity grid, the water supply, a skyscraper with thousands of people in it, the parliament building of a country... I think it is fat tailed.
You may very well be correct; and Ryanair might be a very safe airline (despite not being listed high on the safety rankings). Although that does beg the question of why they are not, but that's not really the point IMO.

But the Qantas Flight 32 is the point, this is exactly what this story is about. Confidence in an aircraft. Qantas Flight 32 was an Airbus A-380, which is exactly what you would expect to hear anytime you heard about serious accidents or plane crash; the name "Airbus". Boeing used to be the safe over engineered plane, while Airbus was a French/German/Spanish hybrid where the jokes about French cars, carried over to the planes, which led to joke slogans like this:

"Take a chance with Air France"

Boeing was synonymous with safety; but now they seem insistent on destroying their own legacy with that MAX/8 plane.
> Training a neural network is like training a dog, and the loss function just describes when you'll shout "no!" and how loudly.

This is a pretty good ELI5 neural networks.
A solar installation in your yard won't survive a hurricane either.
That assumes a liberal policy has never been passed. Wanting to keep a liberal policy in place obviously isn't conservative. Seems obvious, but point is, we can't work backwards and say that if someone wants to keep something the same, that thing must be conservative.

Of course, this assumes that we're talking about the usual political definitions of "conservative" vs "liberal", which more or less correspond to "right" and "left". If we're talking about "conservative" meaning "wants to status quo", then it gets really useless because the alternative is "wants to keep changing things", which isn't a political archetype that exists in reality.
See also https://coding-fonts.css-tricks.com/ for non open source ones.
Just stop using it yourself, and don't concern yourself with who does or doesn't use WhatsApp.

Remaining on the service makes it more attractive and useful to the other users.
>I'm always surprised more American cities.....

Electricity, infrastructure, Additional cost in Tax, Environment protection etc. All of these add up very quickly.

It is not impossible. But it doesn't seems Government cares that much other than talking about it. There is also the close proximity with other supply chain. Where there are currently close to Zero in US.
It seems though that in your example, all of the files being loaded are necessary on first load, and the total quantity is huge. Would the problems still be present if less JavaScript was depended upon on first load?
Hey, author here. Thanks for the great feedback! I totally agree on all of the points. I've already considered the global play/volume controls with a main output patch point and will redo the slider to look more as an actual slider. The presets and tutorials/documentation is something that just needs a lot of time, which is really limited for a side project :)

Patchcab started as an exercise for myself to learn the basics of modular audio and music theory. Working with tools I already know seemed the best idea and the Tone.js was a prefect fit for this. The exercise then turned to an idea of a modular (code and audio wise) Javascript/Typescript synth that would resemble VCV visually. Porting VCV itself to a browser is a really interesting idea and has been done to some extent https://github.com/miRackModular/Rack, but is really out of scope for what I wanted to build :)
That said, I feel like porting some open source Eurorack modules (Mutable instruments, https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack, I'm looking at you) would be a really nice next step.
Generally old chips are good, depends on the purpose. Some things like the f35 would like to use TSMC’s fabs. But not every chip is for only processing and larger process have their advantages for certain applications like power, analog, and em hardening
Signal is a nonprofit, does not store metadata, and is likely not for sale.
Voting with your wallet is not the way to go when there are actual lives involved. As a consumer, I should absolutely not have to keep up to date with what airline buys which airplane models, and which airplane models are considered safe. That's what regulatory bodies are for. If the regulatory process is broken, it needs fixing, but there does not need to be a second market-driven layer here.
Ok, you seem to have better numbers, I was just pulling numbers from top of my head.

My point is that search is not priority for google anymore. 15 years ago it won because it had clean simple UI. Now its bog down with ads. Duck and others offer much better experience.
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Android primary, iPad and desktop clients linked.

Comically, every platform has different issues with "deleted" meta-info popping up again. Like "deleted" groups, "deleted" contacts, "deleted" chats... meta links I can't get rid off whatever I do. The worst is legacy groups I left, "deleted", can't even use or join anymore, but also can't get rid of. They reappear every time I refresh the iPad app. Mind you, the group members are still visible, so I am really happy whistle-blowing, terrorism or crime isn't my profession.

This made me really distrusting of Signal, when years old meta data popped up again. Like, have they lost some pointers or something? Can I even expect the data to be gone, when I delete my account for good? Doesn't feel like privacy at all...
I did a six month contract for ASML years ago. Their Asian (and especially Chinese) sales people were notorious for giving away gigabytes and terabytes worth of “free” software or DVD images to any customer or potential customer who asked for them.

This caused major problems for the WAN between ASML headquarters in Eindhoven and the remote offices in those Asian countries.
Whilst Lidar and cameras may have similar wavelengths, they have very different information outputs. Cameras give you a 2D colored image from which you essentially guesstimate the distance of objects. Lidar gives you a 2D depth map with much higher confidence in the data that comes out of the stream.

Elon has a high incentive to talk down Lidar in cars: He/Tesla placed the bet initially on cameras because Lidar is/was too expensive, and promised these cars will be able to drive themselves ("regulatory approval pending"). Retrofitting Lidar is not an option (price, sensor&cable placement), so a lot of his (and Tesla's) promises ride on cameras working out and Lidar not being necessary. A lot of Tesla's (Car's and Car company's) value rely on cameras working out and Lidar not being necessary.
Yes, smooth sailing in Haskell.

Define the datatype and let GHC generics and the Aeson library handle the rest.

The worst-case scenario is when keys in your JSON conflict with keywords or existing functions: 'id' and 'data' are pretty common. It means you need to rename your datatype fields to something like '_id' and '_data', and provide a mapping function to Aeson.

Where the 'fully automatic' declaration looks like:

instance FromJSON Coord

The declaration where you remap to avoid name clashes could look like:

instance FromJSON Coord where
parseJSON = genericParseJSON defaultOptions { fieldLabelModifier = dropWhile (=='_') }
why is it the the responsibility for low risk individuals to put their lives on hold indefinitely so that high risk individuals can live recklessly? the elderly and the immunocompromised were at risk long before covid and they will be at risk post covid too. i cannot stop boomers from being dumb and selfish and acting with utter disregard for their own safety and 10+ months operating with an excess of caution and doing everything right were rendered utterly meaningless because they got me sick.
The US already has plenty of centralized health infrastructure (and did before Obama); this comment is a (partisan pot shot) red herring, and completely irrelevant to the vaccine distribution clusterfuck.

The issue is not lack of infrastructure, it's gross incompetence of the regional authorities who are responsible for distributing the vaccine.

If you thought the federal government sucked, wait until you see how bad the states are.
uhh., Where I am from they are sending a snail mail with the invite letter.
I guess I am too dumb to understand these high concept talks, especially from the past when words meant different things than today.

Why should every object be a server. How does slapping a TCP and IP parser to every struct helps something. How does it relate to bacteria.

Yeah OK metaprogramming. The more a program use metaprogramming, the less readable it usually is.

I don't know. I am not Alan Kay and I didn't create OOP and Smalltalk so I guess I will stick to more practical things rather than philisophising about computer languages, and how objects will save everything. (I like Smalltalk for what it is.)
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I am working on some of those features - payments, auth modes etc.

Thank you for the feedback! Will add it to the backlog!
You're right it won't all be search revenue. What I guess I'm trying to say in a nutshell is:

For a competitor, the overall boost in revenue due to a much higher all round use of their search engine is likely to offset the extra costs associated with serving news content.
I'm not sure we have enough information to draw that conclusion. The thunderbolt ports on the M1 are driven directly from the SOC, so adding more would have meant adding a hub chip, which may have been deemed not worth the cost either financailly or in terms of power/thermal budget.
Usually they need clear lane markings, at least one white line needs to be visible for the system to latch on.

Snowy roads, dirt roads etc. are out of scope for those.
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Cockroaches too please.
you mean, Bayern first? I didn't notice that, but probably.
We can make all mammals disappear and mosquitos will follow.
Of course they won't be. The US press will just keep on pushing the narrative that the US was failing on vaccination compared to the rest of the world and it was all Trump's fault, regardless of the facts, just like they did with Covid-19 mass testing after the US started doing better than everyone else at that last spring sometime. That went on for almost a year until it finally helped get him kicked out of office like they'd hoped.
What was your self study resource?
You want your ISP to build their own IM service, and/or offer Matrix servers?

I would much rather use Facebook Messenger than any ISP provided service.
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If a disease causes millions of deaths it is not a rare disease. There has been a grand total of about 200-ish cases of the mad cow disease cumulatively. Though it terrorized people for years.
The diseases they transmit notwithstanding, I would take 10x the mosquitoes if it meant ticks, bot flies, intestinal worms, brain eating amoeba and any other parasitic creepy crawlies were gone for good.
Yes. The NTSB is such a culture.
Snow is a difficult problem even for humans.

In worst cases the road turns from a 2 lane road to a 1.5-1.8 lane road when there's enough snow on the banks. Multi-lane motorways turn from 4 lanes to 2-8-3.5 lanes. Humans have trouble navigating that, dunno how any FSD system would manage it in our lifetime.
Sorry, you mean nations that kill democracy are going to out compete the others?
> Most people are not Nazis, and most of the bad discourse on the internet does not involve Nazis.

Agreed, I just chose an example that most people would be able to empathize with or at least understand.

But the same principle holds for, say, socialists and core Trump supporters, in my experience, and there are a lot more of each of those.
> Unfortunately the nice hardware and electricity grid actually needs a society to build and maintain.

How much energy, money, human resources were spent already on research of, say, Fusion Energy? Has it produced anything close to being net-positive? Should we call it quits? Who gets to represent "society" to make such a call?

> How many transactions can bitcoin handle nowadays?

How many tons of cargo could the first airplanes carry?

Sorry for being flippant, but it gets tiring to get the same "argument" over and over and over again. Yeah, current implementation of the system is far from ideal. It needs work. It is being worked on. The fact that it is not it is the highest priority does not make undesirable. It just means that are other things that need to be worked on before we put more focus on these kind of optimizations.
Thanks :) I'm not sure why but having a name for this culture just makes things a little easier to digest for me.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=SPACs&geo=US

I'm trying to find the first mention of a SPAC and which 'unicorn' was the catalyst to trigger this storm. BUT the key reason is that there are far fewer limitations on the promotion of the stock itself. The startup will be bleeding cash, and a IPO requires too much paperwork and hiding numbers gets harder, SPACs will let a startup raise cash when their metrics are poor and they need cash to keep the ride going.
I'm not sure if this is the same issue but we've heard from tons of people that the "undo" button should be at the bottom in order to make it easier to reach using a phone one-handed. We've now made that change. If you're referring to something else, please elaborate :-)
no they don't : European citizens have not sufficiently been informed of pii-data sharing between Whatsapp/facebook :

https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-privacy-fine-data-p...
Deeply sarcastic, but I suppose no sarcasm is so obvious that it can't be missed in text. I'm contrasting this with the bizarrely blase approach to far higher death numbers that can be seen everywhere relating to COVID. Even here on HN in the vaccination numbers thread on the front page.
Donald Knuth once said, “Premature Optimisation is the root of all evil!” But that message has obviously not yet reached the Racket community.
Because how else do you explain this madness: they spent three years developing a new version of Racket that et the end turned slower than the original! [1]

Meanwhile, for example, we can still count the number of web applications written in Racket on the fingers of one hand, and the number of Racket users in the racket group is rapidly decreasing from day to day.

Turns out the only users of Racket are people who live off Racket in a way that writes scientific articles that nobody cares about.

Very rare are those who use Racket for any practical purposes.

I wonder if it would have been better if this huge effort had been made to write clear documentation on how to use the Racket Web Library in a practical way? The current documentation for the web framework doesn't understand, I mean, even its creator, Jay McCarthy. I've never seen worse documentation on any software product than this for racket web library in my entire life.

On the other hand, we have this guy, Jesse Alama [2], who, like, wrote something about it. But there's literally not a single thing this guy published that he didn't charge her fattly. All his books and tutorials cost a lot and their quality is questionable.

But, unfortunately, these topics are a taboo in Racket community...

[1] https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/01/racket-status.html
[2] https://gumroad.com/jessealama
Clicking and keyboard work on the computer, and tapping and swiping works on touch devices. I was hoping this would be clear enough since I don't want to take up people's time with tutorials. Maybe we can add a separate "help" button or add this to the about page?
> driverless paid service

Which works in one small limited area of the earth because of high-def maps, which is not what you would normally call "scalable".
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I believe he means time. Taking a picture such as the example takes a few minutes while on vacation. Tiktok dances are made after entire days of training.

The cost is massive for what the dance brings.
How do innovative transportation technologies(SpaceX, Hyperloop), food choice(plant, lab based meat), robots and AI, green tech, etc not "proper pursuits"?

They're good business, they offer more power to China, why would they change that?

And considering they're history, they've probably learned the lesson about the weakness of ignoring global technology.

And sure, they do have the "great firewall", but it's smart enough to let the science\technology in while filtering the politics out.
In a group, hold the message, click more, click reply privately. Not in contacts.

https://www.whatsapp.com/business/api

https://www.whatsapp.com/payments
Yep, and Melbourne had it's "second wave" in the middle of winter. Locked down and got it under control. We've had the opportunity for things to go pear shaped, but due to decisive action, an educated and thinking public and fairly strict enforcement we've got no community transmission. The only issue we have is that our methods of isolating people returning to the country are proving to be somewhat inadequate with people like cleaners picking up the virus from the isolation facilities (Hotels). These issues are being improved and it looks like we are going to continue to be virus free.
Has that been ported from newton to einstein yet?
Maybe you're right, but I heard similar claims about Covid and Ebolavirus when they were still rare. People were saying early last year that you're more likely to die from a car accident than from Covid. So your earlier comment reminded me of that. Perhaps I misunderstood you.
"I understand you have nothing to hide, I have nothing to hide too, but I still do not like giving my data to Facebook. Since in order to communicate we need to be on the same platform, and we both have nothing to hide, but I do not like Facebook, can we please use an app I am comfortable with?"
I enjoyed glossing over the paper (will read it properly after work), but it was not immediately obvious to me how to implement this for strings.

I'm no expert in this area, so this might have an obvious answer.

I mean I guess you could treat characters as base 2^32 or something like that and convert a string to a real that way, but often strings have a non-trivial sort orders.
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> Often it says "the camera is blinded"

It could very well theoretically be a software issuse.
> It’s extremely rare for automated attacks to scale against popular CMSs before the patch for that vulnerability is available. In the vast majority of cases the script kiddies find out about the vulnerability when the patch is released. Then some bad guy has to write the script to target it, and distribute that and/or scale it. All a site owner has to do to win, is patch faster than that.

Again you’re over estimating the average IT team’s ability to keep on top of WP patches. And again I have to reiterate my point about the advantages of a good WAF (web application firewall).

I’m not making a theoretical argument here. I’ve seen and have had to fix numerous sites from companies with competent developers and sys admins but who were simply unlucky enough not to notice that one RCE vulnerability in time.

> I’m sure you saw a lot of CMS installations that got hacked. I’m also sure that most them were because of either poor patch discipline, or misconfiguration, or both.

Neither actually. Just busy teams in medium sized business having a plethora of projects and too little time to manage everything with the same degree of love that your larger companies or start ups do when they have a dedicated team working in a single product.

Remember the appeal of WP for many is that it is “plug and play” so it often gets installed in organisations as a way of reducing the burden on existing developers and/or sysadmins. A strategy that makes complete sense on paper but can back fire spectacularly.

Let’s also remember that WP also appeals to the hobbyists too. You can’t accuse them of being incompetent sysadmins because they never set out to be technical. Instead they were sold on how easy WP is to install and manage.

Again this is why I keep discussing WAFs. Using them is non-obvious but it does reduce the burden on whatever individual or team manage WP.

> But even then a popular CMS may have an advantage: it’s a lot easier to find professional help for a popular CMS than for a niche or custom one.

Oh i agree. Choosing an established CMS isn’t a bad decision as there are plenty of benefits in doing so.

> Honestly, running any software at all is going be a nightmare for a lot of people. Hence the success of products like Squarespace and Wix; now they don’t have to.

This I agree with too.
They have shared data. I believe it was even acknowledged publicly (and especially now, with the “the tos change actually reflects practices”).

They’re ignoring GDPR and a variety of other laws; why would this agreement be different?